Vulkan files leak

The company NTC Vulkan was founded by Anton Markov and Alexander Irzhavsky in 2010. Both are graduates of St Petersburg military academy and have served in the Russian army, with Markov reaching the rank of captain and Irzhavsky reaching the rank of major. Vulkan received special licences to work on classified military and state projects from 2011. It has more than 120 staff, 60 of who are programmers, and describes its speciality as information security. It lists Sberbank, Aeroflot and Russian Railways as customers. ==Leaks==

The documents, numbering in their thousands, were leaked to the German newspaper '''' within days of the 24 February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine by a whistleblower who opposed that war, ==Connections with other organisations==

The documents link Vulkan to the GRU run hacker group Sandworm. In 2018 some employees went in connection to Amezit to Rostov-on-Don to visit the Radio Research Institute, which is linked to the Federal Security Service. It is not known if it has been used in parts of Ukraine occupied by the Russian Army. ==References==